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The Moon on Sunday, December 29, 1996: Waning Gibbous, 81% lit

Waning · 81.5% lit · ♌︎ Leo 29°

Moon age

18.8days

Moon phase on December 29, 1996Waning Gibbous

Sunday 29 December 1996405,471 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 29, 1996, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 81.5% of its visible face lit, 18.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

81.5%Illumination at noon UTC
18.8 dMoon age
405,471 km251,948 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (29°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 29, 1996 is on Tuesday, December 24, 1996 at 20:41 UTC, 5 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, January 9, 1997 at 04:26 UTC, 11 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Tuesday, December 24, 199620:41
Last Quarter (after)Thursday, January 2, 199701:45

The Moon around December 29

More about this date

Sunday, December 29, 1996 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 10, 1996 to the new moon of January 9, 1997, a cycle of 29.48 days.